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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

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DOW 41.79 TO 22,412.59

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5.28 TO 6,456.04

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2017 HERITAGE DAYS HONOREES The 2017 Heritage Days celebration officially kicked off last night with the McCook Chamber of Commerce Mixer at McCook National Bank. The Richard Drake Family was named this year's Heritage Days Honor Family. Former McCook High School grad Harrison Ford was selected as the Grand Marshall while Jim and Judy Andersen are the Parade Marshalls. Justin Barenburg and Kathlyn Hauxwell were cho-sen as the Heritage Days Royalty. The annual George W. Norris

Prayer Breakfast will kick off Heritage Days weekend at 7 a.m. Fri-day with a new venue – McCook Christian Church, 507 West B. The breakfast will be catered by Schmick’s Market. Tickets are $10 and available at the McCook Area Chamber of Commerce or from Leon Kuhlen, 308-345-3981. McCook Community College vice president Andy Long will deliver the keynote address. Maggie Repass will serve as the master of ceremonies and the Rev. Clark Bates, pastor at McCook Christian Church, will give the invocation. Ginger ten Bensel will provide musical entertainment, including the singing of “God Bless America.” Heritage Days Honor award winners and royalty will be special guests at the prayer breakfast.

NATIONAL OPIOID CRISIS Nebraska is joining 40 other states to investigate the origins of the national opioid crisis. Attorney General Doug Peterson says states have been watching the actions of those in the opioid industry for years; now they want documents from manufacturers and distributors to determine if they misrepresented how addictive some pain reliev-

ers are. Peterson says the widespread impact has been significant. “That’s why I think it was appropriate for so many states to come to-gether to do this multistate investigation, because this is a nationwide crisis that we’re now dealing with, with the number of overdoses and the number of addictions that have been caused,” Peterson tells Ne-braska Radio Network. How serious is this crisis? “To the families that experience it it’s very serious, because the addiction is so intense and it destroys lives,” according to Peterson. Peterson says the information gathered will enable the attorneys general to evaluate whether manufacturers and distributors engaged in unlawful practices in the marketing, sale, and distribution of opioids.

INDICATOR HAS DIPPED An indicator followed closely by University of Nebraska economists has dipped, dimming prospects for economic growth in early 2018. Bureau of Business Research Director Eric Thompson with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says one factor is a drag on the state economy.

“The decline occurred, because there was significant drop in manufac-turing hours during August and this is obviously a key sector of the economy and a very cyclical sector,” Thompson tells the Nebraska Radio Network. Thompson says a key to state economic growth is a sustained expansion of the manufacturing sector. The leading eco-nomic indicator report compiles a number of economic factors to pre-dict economic growth in Nebraska over the next six months. It is pro-duced monthly by the Bureau of Business Research. The indicator fell by .38% in August. Thompson says there is some good news in the latest survey.

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ON THIS DAY

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough

sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no es-cape, there's no excuse, so just

suck up and be nice. ~Ani Difranco~

SPORTS

The McCook Community College Lady Indian volleyball team

dropped a three-set match to Central CC of Columbus last

night at the Graff Events Center. The McCook Lady Bison

golfers are in Holdrege today for their second invite of the

week. The Bison cross country teams will compete in the

Ogallala Invite at West Wind Golf Course this afternoon. The

Bison boys tennis team heads to Holdrege and the Lady Bi-

son softball team travels to Ogallala for games against Ger-

ing and Scottsbluff.

The Royals wasted no time on Wednesday night in Toronto,

jumping out to a nine-run lead in the second inning and hold-

ing on for a 15-5 win over the Blue Jays. Each member of

their starting lineup and a season-high 13 Royals batters in

total recorded at least one hit, including a record-setting

home run off the bat of third baseman Mike Moustakas. His

37th homer of the season set a Royals single-season record,

surpassing Steve Balboni, who hit 36 in 1985."It's a great

accomplishment," manager Ned Yost said of the fallen 32-

year-old record. "There obviously has been some major

degree of difficulty in doing it. So for him to accomplish it

with 11 games left, it's a huge, huge accomplishment." With

the win, Kansas City moves back within 3 1/2 games of Min-

nesota for the second American League Wild Card spot after

the Twins fell 11-3 to the Yankees earlier Wednesday. The

final game of the series is tonight, with pregame coverage

starting at 5:30 p.m. on The Big Talker 1300 KBRL-AM.

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